DERRY GIRLS star Nicola Coughlan has been named TV actor of the year at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2022. Coughlan has seen a meteoric rise in fame in recent years due to her role in BRIDGERTON where she plays Penelope Featherington. The second season of the show debut on Netflix earlier this year, amassing 193 million viewing hours in its opening weekend.
DERRY GIRL Saoirse-Monica Jackson is set to star in UPGRADED. The ensemble cast includes the likes of Marisa Tomei (MY COUSIN VINNY), Camila Mendes (RIVERDALE), Anthony Head (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), and many more big names in TV and film. The film follows Ana, played by Camila Mendes, an aspiring art trainee as she attempts to follow her dreams. All the while, she tries to make ends meet.
Sister Michael has ruled the hallways of Our Lady Immaculate with an iron fist throughout DERRY GIRLS. Portrayed by an eye-rolling Siobhán McSweeney, the character commands respect, fear, and lots of laughter. In a new Vulture magazine interview, the Cork-born actress reveals her hopes for the legendary nun’s reputation.
The beloved DERRY GIRLS returns to Netflix today. Season 3 serves as a fitting cap for the hilarious and heartfelt comedy, and concludes with a 45-minute episode set against the backdrop of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The series is able to end, pristine and in peak form, before the onset of implausible aging or the inevitable softening of characters that afflicts long-running sitcoms. Like one’s own teenage kicks, it couldn’t go on forever.
DERRY GIRLS returns to Netflix on October 7. Netflix’s official Twitter posted a tweet stating it was hard to say goodbye to the show, saying the “final season of our beloved Derry Girls arrives October 7 on Netflix (outside The UK & Ireland).” Last fall, creator and writer Lisa McGee confirmed on Twitter the third season would be the last, and that it was always the plan to have the show end after three seasons. “Derry Girls is a coming of age story…a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me,” McGee said, also commenting it was an honor to write the show, and she was proud of what it had accomplished and achieved.
Derry Girl Louisa Harland will star in an upcoming Disney+ series, THE BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL. Harland’s character “ends up on an extraordinary adventure after she is framed for murder – a twist of fate that has far bigger consequences than Nell could ever dream of,” the outlet states. The series follows Nell, an 18th century young woman, as she finds herself “unwittingly becoming the most famous highwaywoman in the country.”
In a recent interview, DERRY GIRLS McSweeney criticised the lack of education in England about Northern Ireland. She said, “A sitcom is teaching this country about the history of Northern Ireland, and that’s not how it should be.” She spoke to the show about what should have been an emotional ending to a sitcom, but yet proves that often the past is not quite the past.
Lisa McGee had always found depictions of the Troubles unrecognizable. “There were never any jokes,” she said. “I don’t know any Northern Irish person that isn’t funny.” The stuff that happens most days—the hijinks, the stupid jokes—is at the heart of McGee’s show DERRY GIRLS which just completed its third and final season on Channel 4 in the U.K., and will be returning later this year to Netflix in the U.S.